LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 27 April 1939, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mass will be celebrated on next Sunday, April 30, at Camerons, 8.30 a.m. and at Paroa 10 a.m.—Advt.

Through a fall from a chair at her residence, High Street yesterday Mis G. Webster sustained a fractured leg. She was admitted to the Grey Hospital and is progressing satisfactorily.

“The pair of men’s Chrome Boots you posted me for £l, are the oest value 1 ever had,” writes a satisfied customer. We have more, any size, at the same price, either rubber or leather soles. —11. Hamer, Kumara.— Auvt.

A new method for the destruction of that menace to the farmers' crops, the white butterfly, is reported to have been discovered at Awahuri, four miles from Feilding. It is a shrub, which, after the butterflies have entered its flowers, firmly grips the insects.

Quality Stationery at B. Dixon’s, Ltd. Best quality paper in all sizes of writing pads 6d, 1/-, 1/3, 1/6 and 2/6 each. Best quality envelopes in all size sand styles 3d, 4d, 6d, Bd, 9d, 1/- a packet. Best quality boxed paper and envelopes in white and colours 1/-, 1/3. 1/6, 2/6. 2/- to 14/6 a box. Best quality writing compendiums in white and colours 1/-, 1/3, 1/6, 2/-, 2/6, 3/6, 4/6, to 8/6. All made in New Zealand of best quality British papers.—Advt.

A large carp, or goldfish, lOin. in circumference and about a like length, weighing perhaps three-quarters of a pound, was exhibited pickled in formalin at a meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society Council. . Mr. G. F. Avery, Marton, said that the fish was found in a 'gigantic black shag shot in that district. The bird had swallowed the fish whole—a gar-|* gantuan mouthful.

A Maori in the Supreme Court, at Auckland, provided an exception to the well-known rule of his people’s fondness for making use of an interpreter in Court proceedings. As the man had some little difficulty in making clear to Mr. Justice Blair th® point he wished to express, His Honour invited him to tell his story tn the interpreter. After a little hesitation the Maori replied, “I am poorer in Maori than I am in English.” He continued to make his explanation in English.

Some New Books and Cheap Reprints at B. Dixon’s, Tainui Street.— “The Holy Terror” by H. G. Wells, 9/6 (6d.) “Pastor Niemoller and His Creed” 1/3 (2d.) “Moral Rearmament” by H. W. Austin 1/- (2d.) “The Great Pyramid” 1/9 (Id.) "The Lightened Load” by Hugh Redwood 1/3 (2d.) “Grace, Child of the Gcbi” by Cable and French, 1/3 (2d). “So You Think It’s New” by W. J. Funk 5/6 (4d.) “How to Use Your Mind” by H Ernest Hunt 5/6 (3d.) “Guide to London” by H. V. Morton 7/6 (4d.) “The Secret of Ancient Egypt” by E. G. Palmer 5/6 (3d.) Postages in brackets. —Advt.

The wet weather of the past two days resulted in a big rush of orders for coal and firewood, and coal and wood merchants’ staffs have been working at top speed filling orders, says the “Evening Post.” A Kelburn resident who recollected at 3 p.m. on Thursday that he was out of com spent a vain half-hour at the telephone attempting to obtain a supply. Some of the merchants explained that they could undertake no further orders that day because of the rush Inquiries from others were met with a curt refusal. <■

i Cable advice has been received that the Federal steamer, Huntingdon, left Glasgow on Thursday in ballast for New Zealand and, travelling via Suez will pick up a further shipment ol 1 military aeroplanes for use in the ! Dominion. She will probably take the planes on at Alexandria and is due at i Auckland on June 4. The Port Sydney, which left London in ballast on I April 17 and which is due in New Zealand on May 16, is also bringing a i shipment. The planes are to be assembled at the Hobsonville Air Base. I ’Reasons for allowing military districts to recruit up to 25 per cent, over the establishment for any arm 'of the Territorial Force, were outlined by the Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones), who said that authority for this *o be done had been given some months ago. The Minister said the object in accepting recruits above the normal strength was to provide for cases where units had a Waiting list. Instead of keeping prospective recruits waiting till vacancies occurred they were enlisted for training, and to all intents and purposes were members of the unit concerned. This obviated the necessity for rejecting recruits, and provided' a pool of partlytrained men, who stepped into vacancies in the units resulting from transfers of Territorials and other causes. This system had proved very success- ■ ful in maintaining the strength of unit's, and it had also had an .important bearing on the good attendance at camps. '.